https://github.com/brianhicks/portfolio

Brian Hicks' portfolio
https://github.com/brianhicks/portfolio

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Brian Hicks' portfolio

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/brianhicks/portfolio
• Owner: BrianHicks
• Created: 2010-10-18T19:42:12.000Z (about 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2012-07-10T02:36:09.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-09T19:53:40.961Z (14 days ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: brianhicks.heroku.com
• Size: 2.44 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
Portfolio

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About

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Hi, I'm Brian Hicks. I'm a Web and Graphic design student at

John Brown Univeristy planning to graduate in December of 2011.

I built this site as part of the final class in my program. It has

some of my student work on it, plus a little more if you look in

my philosophy. As for the technical details, this site was built

with Ruby on Rails. It hosts the image assets on Amazon S3 and uses

jQuery for the front-end interaction. You can check out the source

as well as more techical details of how I built the site here on Github.

This app was made with the [12 Factor App][12-factor-app] principles in mind.

This app is live at [www.brianthicks.com][live-installation].

[12-factor-app]: http://www.12factor.net/ "The 12 Factor App"

[live-installation]: http://www.brianthicks.com/ "www.brianthicks.com"

The Good Parts

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Here's a list of what I consider the best parts of the app:

 - `app/models/asset.rb`: The meat of the assets on the site.

 - `public/javascripts/read.js`: Code against Sencha Touch to build the mobile

   web philosophy application. If possible, use an iOS device to try it out.

In addition, this app is set up to do asset processing asynchronously with

delayed\_job, is currently deployed to Heroku, and has a more-or-less complete

test suite using RSpec and Factory Girl.

Deployment

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If you want to modify this code and run it on your own server, feel free.

Just come up with your own look! That's half the fun! So after setting up

a basic rails environment, here's what you need to do.

1. `bundle install` to get all the gems

2. Using the console create a user for yourself.

   It's devise, so you need to set `:email`, `:password`,

   and `:password_confirmation`. In addition, you can

   set `:first_name`, `:middle_name`, and `:last_name`.

   Only `:first_name` and `:last_name` are currently

   used in the app; check out the user model for more

   methods related to names. But registrations are disabled in devise so that

   random people cannot register on the site and post portfolio items.

3. Set up the environment variables for S3. You need `S3_SECRET`,

   `S3_KEY`, and `S3_BUCKET`. (hint: `heroku config:add KEY=VALUE`).

   You can check out and change how the variables are used in

   app/models/asset.rb

4. Push however you want, I use Heroku and the app is optimized for it,

   so if you want to run your own server, you'll need to set up

   delayed_job workers on it.